goodness of my heart to win love and esteem. And I cannot, even by offering you my crown, repay you for what you have done." Beauty gave the young Prince her hand, to help him to rise. They passed, side by side, into 5 the castle, and Beauty was still happier when she found her father and all her family in the dining hall. The beautiful lady whom she had seen in her dream had brought them thither. 66 Beauty," said the lady, who was a well-known 10 fairy, "receive the reward of your noble choice. You preferred goodness to beauty or intelligence, and you therefore deserve to find all these things in one person. You are soon to become a great queen. I trust your high position will not spoil 15 your goodness. As for you," said the fairy, turning to Beauty's sisters, "I know your hearts and all the evil in them. Be turned, therefore, into statues, but preserve your consciousness beneath the stone which will inclose you. You will re- 20 main at the entrance of your sister's palace, where you can always see her happiness. You will not be able to take again your present forms, until you have confessed your faults. But I fear that you T 5 will always remain statues. Pride, anger, greediness, and laziness may be corrected; but nothing short of a miracle can convert the bad and envious heart." The fairy then gave a tap with her wand, and all those assembled in the dining hall were immediately carried into the Prince's kingdom. His subjects greeted him with joy. He married Beauty, who lived with him a long life of perfect 10 happiness. Adapted from MADAME DE BEAUMONT. Write statements about the following: How Beauty found the Beast. What she did for him. What he did. What he told her about his dying. What Beauty told him. Into what he was then changed. Why he had looked like a beast. What the fairy lady did to the sisters. Where all were at last brought. How his people felt when they saw the Prince What was Beauty's reward for her goodness. 74 MARCH THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; Are at work with the strongest; Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one. 10 5 5 10 Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The plowboy is whooping - anon The rain is over and gone! anon; -WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Why should the Why are all things What time of the year has just passed? What word in the -second line tells this? In the fifth line? snow fare ill on the top of a bare hill? happy in spring? ADDITIONAL LESSONS FOR DRILL 1. Fill the blanks with the proper form of "do." b. Write a sentence containing the fourth form of "do." Write a sentence containing the first form of "do." Write a sentence containing the third form of "do." Write a sentence containing the second form of "do." 2. Fill blanks with the proper form of "go." a. go, went, going, gone. (1) We will to the park this afternoon. (2) The other children have b. Write a sentence containing the third form of "go.” Write a sentence containing the first form of "go." Write a sentence containing the fourth form of "go." Write a sentence containing the second form of "go." |